Of Mind and Murder: Toward a More Comprehensive Psychology of the HolocaustGeorge R Mastroianni
In Of Mind and Murder experimental psychologist George Mastroianni produces a detailed and insightful account of the voluminous psychological literature on the Holocaust. Mastroianni declares that his book has three purposes: the first is to “resurrect and perhaps rehabilitate some psychological app...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 108-110 |
| Review of: | Of mind and murder (New York : Oxford University Press, 2019) (Cocks, Geoffrey)
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| Summary: | In Of Mind and Murder experimental psychologist George Mastroianni produces a detailed and insightful account of the voluminous psychological literature on the Holocaust. Mastroianni declares that his book has three purposes: the first is to “resurrect and perhaps rehabilitate some psychological approaches” used in early attempts to understand the Holocaust (p. xxv); the second is to “assess the current state of psychological understanding” (p. xxvi) of the Holocaust; and the third is to “suggest some avenues for future psychological scholarship” (p. xxviii). It is thus the central aim of the book to produce not just a history of attempts to theorize human behavior in the Holocaust, but to begin to develop a comprehensive psychology of such behavior. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcab003 |